{"product_id":"cogwheels-yuko-yamashita-9798181373693","title":"Cogwheels: and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eA writer haunted by raincoats, fires, doubles, and translucent cogwheels moves through hotel rooms, trains, bookshops, family houses, and the edge of madness. In Cogwheels, Ryunosuke Akutagawa turns ordinary modern life into a field of omens, where every object seems to point toward collapse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCogwheels and Other Stories brings together six late and psychologically intense works: Cogwheels, A Fool's Life, Genkaku's Villa, Death Register, Mirage, and A Note to a Certain Old Friend. The volume ranges from hallucinatory confession and autobiographical fragments to family decay, graveside memory, optical illusion, and the lucid terror of self-examination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAkutagawa stands among the defining masters of modern Japanese short fiction. His work transformed classical learning, urban unease, irony, and psychological precision into narratives whose clarity often makes their darkness more unsettling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection offers a concentrated encounter with Akutagawa at his most inward and severe: visionary, controlled, unsparing, and still one of Japan's most influential literary voices.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Yuko Yamashita,Ryunosuke Akutagawa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798181373693\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/13\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.22d","brand":"Yuko Yamashita","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173679833343,"sku":"9798181373693","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2536da16-69d5-4e81-9db9-452a02aaac71.jpg?v=1788955925","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cogwheels-yuko-yamashita-9798181373693","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}